I've installed BOINC on a new VM and when I first set it up and attached to a project it worked perfectly. After I shut down both BOINC and the VM and then restarted them when I launch BOINC it says "DISCONNECTED" in the bottom right of the BOINC window. There are no tasks, projects, notices etc etc etc.

BOINC IS running ... I can control it from BoincTasks and the resource meter on the host shows that it is running.

So how the heck do I get it "connected" so that I can see what is going on directly from the BOINC window?